Russ,
I get screen freezes on WIN 98, and I don't get them on WIN 95. Of course, the WIN 95 has many updates and runs on an old 133Mz chip. It is a tower and has scanner, head set, printer, speakers, and assorted garbage hooked into it. I don't want to update it. It runs great after being hit by lightening three times. <G>
The WIN 98 is on a notebook. It freezes up on some of my chess games. I've learned to quit after about four or or five games and take a reboot break. I think that clears the game memory and prevents the freeze up.
I also use WinDelete. Any programs down loaded from the net are tracked and delete information is saved in a log. The programs are like cookies. They enable a site to play java programs. I have had some freezes I thought those programs caused. WinDelete enabled me to delete the small programs. The freeze went away after deleting them. I think the last one was IE4 something. The programs often have to do with the Internet Explorer program. IE27 also gave me a problem.
I'm not a tech person, just a long time stupid user who has learned a few tricks. The freezes shouldn't be a big deal, but the 40 second delays might be unless you are down loading a page with a lot of graphics for the first time. Those pages take a long time until they are stored in you PC memory cache. Hmmm, the SI server has also been slow lately.<G>
Good Luck and Happy New Year,
NW |
